Füsun Atalay's Writings
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Jan.06.2010
The Telegram - Newfoundland and Labrador - Canada
Celebrating the 800th anniversary of their philosopher’s birth, followers of Mevlâna Jalaluddin Rumî are travelling the world sharing his ideas of peace and spitiual freedom.With them, Whirling Dervishes join in to take participants for a spin.
From Africa to Russia, from Australia to North America the world has been celebrating the 800th anniversary of the...
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Jan.06.2010
The Telegram - Newfoundland and Labrador - Canada
Amazing Capers
“And we praise You, my Lord,
for our Sister Earth,
who sustains us with her fruits,
and colored flowers, and herbs!”
From the “Canticle of the Saint Francis of Assisi” (Giovanni Bernardone, 1181-1226) founder of the Order of Friars Minor, patron saint of animals, zoos, ecologists and environmentalists.
I’ve known for a long time that...
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Jan.06.2010
The Telegram _ Newfoundland and Labrador_CANADA
A closer look at Prosthodontics
"You wanna take a PA of this, Suzanne, so we can see how the infected area looks?"
With this mysterious, professional lingo Dr. Michael Moscovitch, a veteran prosthodontist since 1978, disappears into the next room to attend to the other patient sprawled on the dreaded dentist’s chair.
He has been filing...
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Nov.22.2009
I have a confession:
I am reading my book, WILL OF MY OWN, www.dictionmatters.com every night before I go to sleep - for the second time - from the beginning. I'm trying to judge it objectively. Sometimes I find it childish and amateur- because I wanted it to be of at least “Giller Prize Finalist” quality. But more often I find it worthy of consideration as a...
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"Through the bittersweet process I learned that growth, understanding, and acceptance take their due course. What's important is not to lose hope and not to yield into despair. Stop, take a beath, and put a distance between raw wounds and irrational thoughts. Trust in time. It takes and it gives; it rips but it also heals. When you finally let go of what was not yours, you will be left with all that is, and regain, as I did, the Will to live, to forgive, and to rebuild what no one will be able to take away from you again." ~ F. Atalay~”
—Will of my Own - A Memoir
About Füsun
Born into a rich culture of her Turkish heritage which she left behind as a child, Ms Atalay lived her life in Europe and North America where she taught and wrote in English, the language she acquired as a teen. Her constant search for her unique identity and...